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Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

"He wasn't comparing, he was contrasting" is a particularly banal and egregious response because, again, the heart of the concern is that it was even done in the first place and that there's *still* speculation a full six weeks later about who The Real Kemi is behind closed doors. Her entire stint in the house consisted of the vast majority of the house waiting for her to blow up and snap and ~show her true colors~, and when she hasn't given them what they wanted they're still speculating and holding onto the possibility as to what she's really like on the outside. Like, no one's wondered who the real Bella is or who the real Sam is but some of them are still holding onto the hope that Kemi's secretly the angry black woman, probably as means to justify their feelings about her. Whether or not you want to call it racism, let's call a spade a spade and recognize the clear unconscious bias and stereotyping.

They've speculated and trash talked about Bella & Sam as well. People just don't care as much when that happens (and sure it possibly/probably hasn't happened as much, I don't really know but I have read more on twitter about houseguests talking about Kemi --- is that a houseguest obsession or fanbase obsession idk for sure). As for the contrast he made between Kemi's quiet personality and then imagining her like the fiery bloody-mouthed Bayleigh yelling at the TV screen, you can't just assume that to be a racial thing. It was him imagining her as the opposite to her actual personality, in a joking manner, that is what was seen for sure, and Bayleigh is a recent BBUS houseguest who had one of the craziest flip-outs in recent memory. Maybe subconsciously he/others have drawn that comparison to the latest black girl on the latest BBUS season but that's not something you can really bash --- there will often be subconscious biases & stereotyping without meaning any harm ie. the new nerdy guy often gets compared to the latest nerdy guy based on appearance alone, the new country boy (or redneck as a lot of people on here like to say) gets compared to the latest country boy, "southern belle" to latest southern belle etc. etc. the latter two are typically assumed to be racist pricks before the season even starts etc. etc.

Humans are observant and maybe sometimes wrongfully focus on some physical appearance - in this case we don't know for sure if that was the case or if Jackson was simply comparing polar opposite personalities from his season to the last season of Big Brother. Looking at context, he wasn't bashing Kemi as an Angry Black Woman, he called her quiet and playfully imagined her pulling a 180 yelling at the TV screen. Quiet people get jokingly assumed to be the opposite behind closed doors all the time usually as a joke as it was in this case as well. Racism really hasn't been seen at all from Jackson either but was assumed from as early as his Camp Comeback noms. (Maybe some other questionable behavior at times but that's arguable and besides the point of this thread)

Originally Posted by Matthew.

I am no Bayleigh fan, but this isn’t true. Bayleigh was not aggressive. Nobody was aggressive last season from what I remember. Iirc, she raised her voice like once? If that makes someone aggressive then idk anymore. I take it that means Nick and Jack are also aggressive then, seeing as Nick shouted at Christie last night, and Jack, well, less said about him the better tbqh

To be fair I think it's safe/fair to say Bayleigh, Nick, Christie & Jack are all subjectively aggressive from their respective blowup(s) and/or attitudes and/or demeanors towards people

Originally Posted by sleleen

Also can you elaborate on how Christie & Kat are worse than Jack & Jackson?

Kat was obsessed with Kemi, mocked her in her bathing suit (playfully - people probably realized that just because it wasn't Jackson lol), trash talked her all the time. Jack & Christie had so many poor things to say about Kemi (shown on the show and all). I said all 3 have been much worse than anything Jackson has said about Kemi, which is the truth. If you are oblivious to only Christie & Kat specifically of those 4 then that proves my theory on TIBB's own biases.

For the record I don't think any of Kat/Christie/Jack were really that bad either but it's just funny how Jackson gets a lot of slack here for basically nothing negative regarding Kemi from his end, especially compared to others in that house.